Antonio Nasuto - Offset

Offset is a work that depicts, with refined clarity, the tension between opposing forces coexisting within contemporary identity. The portrait of a woman, captured in a pose that appears calm at first glance, stands out against a wall on which a pair of boxing gloves hang: objects that evoke resistance, confrontation, and self-defense. This physical and almost aggressive energy is contrasted by the delicacy of a small flower, carefully held between her fingers, which becomes the poetic counterpoint of the entire composition.
The painting is built around a precise dialectic: fragility and strength, sweetness and determination, introspection and the external world. The female figure becomes the place where these polarities find an unstable yet authentic balance. The choice of objects – essential, symbolic, never didactic – makes the scene a reflection on the duality that runs through every individual: the ability to protect oneself and, at the same time, to safeguard one's sensitivity.
In Offset, painting does not merely describe; it suggests. It invites the viewer to question what is not immediately visible: inner conflicts, the need to balance daily gestures, the shadows that define our presence in the world. From this emerges an intense, measured work, where symbolic narration intertwines with the precision of portraiture, transforming an image into a meditation on living.